Letters

New Year’s resolutions for The Herald

New Year’s Resolutions 2025 goals for The Herald Suggested New Year resolutions…

 

Please list TV sports schedule in The Herald again

Herald Sports Please list TV schedule again When The Herald first started…

 

Give Herald reporters resources they need

I am taken aback by The Herald management’s demands of the Everett…

 

American families need help from child tax credit

I agree with a recent letter “Adopt a renter tax credit in Congress for affordable housing” in the assertion that a renter tax credit is… Continue reading

Consider Trump’s dubious pardons before criticizing Biden

Sometimes, the irony is too thick to be ignored. A recent letter to the Herald, written I assume, in good faith, had the audacity or… Continue reading

Pacific Seafoods thanks first responders’ quick action

On behalf of the team at Pacific Seafood’s Mukilteo facility, I want to express our deepest gratitude to the Snohomish County Fire Department, Mukilteo Fire… Continue reading

Greed, not housing units, causing homelessness problem

Please make those so-called experts stop trying to promote transitional housing as a cure for our homeless problems. They keep saying we need over a… Continue reading

Herald owners should work with union for reporters’ fair pay

As a longtime loyal reader of The Herald, it’s been difficult to watch the sale of the newspaper to an out-of-state entity, the cutting of… Continue reading

Protect SNAP’s food aid as part of U.S. Farm Bill

Gov. Jay Inslee’s projected budget shortfall of $10 billion to $12 billion over the next four years, announced on Dec. 17, makes passing the Farm… Continue reading

Herald, reporters, journalism need support

In today’s world, access to trustworthy and reliable local news is more important than ever. The Herald has been that trusted beacon of community information… Continue reading

Buck’s American Cafe graciously provided meeting space

The Kidney Auxiliary of Puget Sound, also know as KAPS, wants to express our thanks to Buck’s American Café, in Everett. For over a year,… Continue reading

Keep natural gas for its reliability

Regarding the story, “Broad coalition challenges I-2066 as unconstitutional,” saying that this initiative jeopardizes local governments and other entities to promote clean energy and reduce… Continue reading

Reconfigure Washington-Oregon border along Cascade Range

When I heard that eastern Oregon counties are thinking of joining Idaho, I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern… Continue reading

Thoughts for 2025: Now’s still the time to aid country

For most of us, the state of the nation at the end of this year is hugely disappointing; surreal, actually. Remember that old typing exercise… Continue reading

Adopt a renter tax credit in Congress for affordable housing

Having enough housing is the key to ending homelessness, according to local and national experts (“Experts tackle the ‘all of us problem’ of housing,” The… Continue reading

Pass climate, grid reliability legislation in Congress

On Dec. 11, I joined eight fellow climate activists to meet with U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash,m about the urgent need to pass the bipartisan… Continue reading

Pay Herald reporters fairly, without quotas

As a city councilman for Lynnwood, I feel compelled to voice my support for the Everett NewsGuild and the journalists at The Herald as they… Continue reading

Herald’s story quota for reporters misses demands of journalism

The Herald’s policy of tying reporters’ wages to a story count is absolute insanity. Do the owners have any idea how a democracy works and… Continue reading

Snohomish parents deserved notice of sex abuse arrest

My 14-year-old son is a student at Centennial Middle School in Snohomish. On Dec. 8, my son learned via a group text with friends that… Continue reading

What are limits of rights, restrictions for guns?

Like Will Rogers, all I know is what I read in the papers. I recall that on Oct. 7, 2023, Jewish people in Israel hid… Continue reading